theguruguys

This is a better budget laptop than many of the recent ones that feature AMD E-series processors and sell in this price range.

For basic uses like browsing the web, word, excel, schoolwork etc. it will be fine, probably even a noticeable speed increase if you are updating from a basic laptop from 4+ years ago (this can't be said with some new budget laptops that are as slow as Pentium 4's).

biohazardtwo

Zap Brannagin wrote:This is NOT an i7, i5 or i3, its just a dual core pentium. I thought all new intel procs were all i3, i5 or i7.

The "pentiums" intel currently sells are in no way related to the original pentium this is a sandy bridge based cpu released about a year ago. There is simply no comparison between this and the intel atoms/ amd e series cpus typically found at this price point. I spent the better part of the last two years gaming on a laptop with a marginally worse processor. This is an excellent cpu at this price point.

qwerty82

Hey all - I've really been wanting another laptop, preferably under $300 and this seems to be a nice fit for me. I'm not a gamer. I don't do much on my laptops but surf, watch DVDs, word processing, some you-tubing, stuff like that. Nothing too hefty but I'd like to be able to do multiple of these at one time which my old laptops aren't so great at that anymore. I've been watching for a USB 3.0 and this is the first one I've seen in my price range but the fact that there is only that and one 2.0 kind of makes me hesitant. I'm clueless about screens as well, I'd just like something that looks good for watching movies... Edit - the 15.6 " is the biggest that fits in my bag so I do like that.

What do you guys think? Does this sound like a good option for me or should I keep watching for something else?

peterthealeut

qwerty82 wrote:Hey all - I've really been wanting another laptop, preferably under $300 and this seems to be a nice fit for me. I'm not a gamer. I don't do much on my laptops but surf, watch DVDs, word processing, some you-tubing, stuff like that. Nothing too hefty but I'd like to be able to do multiple of these at one time which my old laptops aren't so great at that anymore. I've been watching for a USB 3.0 and this is the first one I've seen in my price range but the fact that there is only that and one 2.0 kind of makes me hesitant. I'm clueless about screens as well, I'd just like something that looks good for watching movies... Edit - the 15.6 " is the biggest that fits in my bag so I do like that.

What do you guys think? Does this sound like a good option for me or should I keep watching for something else?

pupyluvr

w4ffles wrote:I hope you know that most of the mobile i3's, i5's, and i7's are dual cores with hyper threading enabled.

Yes, I have an i7 dualie and it's nice but it's no quaddie. For under $300 shipped this is probably a very nice computer but if you throw another $200 on the fire and shop around you probably could have something a lot nicer.

k87

pupyluvr wrote:Yes, I have an i7 dualie and it's nice but it's no quaddie. For under $300 shipped this is probably a very nice computer but if you throw another $200 on the fire and shop around you probably could have something a lot nicer.

budpayne

Hope you have better luck than me. I bought this last time it ran, I cut the seal, took it out, opened it up and the 9 key across the top was a 6. Took pics, loooong wait on hold for tech and told to box up and send back to Asus, $20 shipping out of my pocket, week later get it back, Asus replaced the keyboard. Open it up, connect direct to router, run the mozillion updates needed. Unhook from the cat 5 ........wireless card doesn't work. That's where I am now. UPDATE- Well isn't my face red, fn / f2 and WOW it's connected!!! It still had a 6 where the 9 was.... but honestly, I'm perfectly happy with the ASUS.

djk21108

I just ordered a laptop just like this from Woot. Mine had a crummier AMD 1.9 GHZ dual-core processor.

When you swap out the HDD for a hyper-fast SSD and toss in another 4GB of RAM, this will be one of the quickest little internet browsers you can get your hands on. It'll impress even your friends with Macbooks, all for under $500.

pizdets

I bought this here when it ran last time. I use it for school, browsing and some light gaming. For these tasks and at this price point, the performance is more than adequate.

To those saying "throw in another $200 and you can have something nicer"--not to say you're being Captain Obvious, but yes, normally paying 70% more for a computer gets you a nicer one. If I had $500 to spend, I would have been looking for different specifications.

Of course throwing in an SSD is a great idea, but another cheaper upgrade with good bang for the buck would be an additional 4GB stick of RAM that you can probably get for around $20 these days, and would give this machine a bit more pep.

Something prospective buyers should know:

This will come with lots of bloatware so you'd be better off with wiping it right off the bat. ASUS will have wiped the recovery partition, so you will need to create a set of your own recovery DVDs to be able to reinstall the Win 7 that comes with it. Mine had a quick start guide in the box that claimed there would be a PDF file on the desktop detailing how to do this, but no such file existed. That being said, it wasn't hard to figure out using the ASUS utility provided.

Other than that, mine came with lots of little flecks of what I will continue to hope and believe was white paint, and that was easily removed with an alcohol pad.

jmsmits

Haven't Wooted in a while and my 10-year old needs a computer for school, so I'm in for one. I'm trying to switch our household to Apple but that's just not going to happen for $300 (with tax and shipping). I just hope the refurbishing was done by Asus and not by Acme Refurbishing Inc...

queenangelfish

pizdets wrote:I bought this here when it ran last time. I use it for school, browsing and some light gaming. For these tasks and at this price point, the performance is more than adequate.

To those saying "throw in another $200 and you can have something nicer"--not to say you're being Captain Obvious, but yes, normally paying 70% more for a computer gets you a nicer one. If I had $500 to spend, I would have been looking for different specifications.

Of course throwing in an SSD is a great idea, but another cheaper upgrade with good bang for the buck would be an additional 4GB stick of RAM that you can probably get for around $20 these days, and would give this machine a bit more pep.

Something prospective buyers should know:

This will come with lots of bloatware so you'd be better off with wiping it right off the bat. ASUS will have wiped the recovery partition, so you will need to create a set of your own recovery DVDs to be able to reinstall the Win 7 that comes with it. Mine had a quick start guide in the box that claimed there would be a PDF file on the desktop detailing how to do this, but no such file existed. That being said, it wasn't hard to figure out using the ASUS utility provided.

Other than that, mine came with lots of little flecks of what I will continue to hope and believe was white paint, and that was easily removed with an alcohol pad.

rckwoot

pizdets wrote:I bought this here when it ran last time. I use it for school, browsing and some light gaming. For these tasks and at this price point, the performance is more than adequate.

To those saying "throw in another $200 and you can have something nicer"--not to say you're being Captain Obvious, but yes, normally paying 70% more for a computer gets you a nicer one. If I had $500 to spend, I would have been looking for different specifications.

Of course throwing in an SSD is a great idea, but another cheaper upgrade with good bang for the buck would be an additional 4GB stick of RAM that you can probably get for around $20 these days, and would give this machine a bit more pep.

Something prospective buyers should know:

This will come with lots of bloatware so you'd be better off with wiping it right off the bat. ASUS will have wiped the recovery partition, so you will need to create a set of your own recovery DVDs to be able to reinstall the Win 7 that comes with it. Mine had a quick start guide in the box that claimed there would be a PDF file on the desktop detailing how to do this, but no such file existed. That being said, it wasn't hard to figure out using the ASUS utility provided.

Other than that, mine came with lots of little flecks of what I will continue to hope and believe was white paint, and that was easily removed with an alcohol pad.

Sweet Jesus, I really hope it was paint.

There are soooooooo many responses running around my head, but I'm afraid the Woot monitors would not approve. However, I will just quote them from above this little reply box...

Yeah! You Tell `Em

You're not gonna sit there and let that jerkface get away with saying that, are you?

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